A Literary Online Journal | Curated by Anita Nair

Volume XIII

For everyone who has accused me of looking through them or ticked me off for not listening while in the middle of a conversation or for just being my whimsical erratic self, read this and take your pick: Creativity is often part of a mental illness, with writers particularly susceptible, according to a study of more than a million people. Continue reading →

Scars in my memory…not quite I doubt if it will be staged again. The first play I wrote and directed. After a decade of engaging with different forms of writing, I find it awkward to read the plays I wrote in the early years. They don’t feel like my works anymore. Continue reading →

Dilip D’Souza trained in engineering (BITS Pilani) and computer science (Brown University). For years, he worked in software in the US (8 years) and then in India (13 years). At some point he began writing, and soon realized that was where his passion lay. He has published four books (before this one, “Roadrunner: An Indian Quest in America”) and has won several awards for his writing, including the Newsweek/Daily Beast Prize for South Asia Commentary. He lives in Bombay with his wife Vibha, children Surabhi and Sahir, and cats Cleo and Aziz. His new book of non-fiction The Curious Case of Binayak Sen has just been published by HarperCollins India. Continue reading →

When I read We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver, I remember wanting to crawl into a deep dark hole and mull over what I had read. With Double Fault, I felt it all over again. Continue reading →

We do not choose the worlds we write about. Most often than not, we write about what is the temple of our familiar. We locate our stories in the world that we believe we have a rare understanding of. A world that we internalize to an extent that it seeps into our every breath and thought. For only then can we recreate on paper that world with almost the life force it pulses with. Continue reading →